Category: Events
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National Science and Engineering Week
11th – 20th March is National Science and Engineering Week, run by the British Science Association. There are loads of activities going on all over the country; check out the website for more info! Get updates and join in the discussion on Twitter @ScienceWeekUK or become a fan on Facebook.
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Alternative Medicine on Trial; A discussion with Dr Simon Singh
This event is being run by Dorchester Arts in partnership with the Thomas Hardye School as part of National Science and Engineering Week. Lecture & discussion start at 7.30pm (Doors & bar open from 7pm) at Dorchester Arts Centre, School Lane, The Grove, Dorchester, Dorset. DT1 1XR. (See the Googlemap below for directions). Tel 01305…
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Visual Illusions in Art, Birds and Butterflies
Professor Philip Howse has published several books and numerous research articles on insect behaviour and ecology. He has developed novel environmentally-friendly methods of control of insect pests. After a career spent mainly at the University of Southampton during which he travelled widely setting up projects for the control of tropical insect pests, he has now…
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Methane Levels in the Atmosphere
Prof. Euan Nisbet is in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Royal Holloway College, where he specialises in Archaean Geology. He is a leading expert on atmospheric methane, CH4, and is co-ordinator of Meth-MonitEU, which is the European Union methane monitoring programme. Global atmospheric levels of the gas now stand at 1,790 parts per…
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The Science of Wine, part II; The Science behind growing the Grapes
Mark was the Wine Trade’s last indentured apprentice & has been involved in wine for 43 years. In this long career Mark has worked for the Wine Society, Diageo, Hall & Woodhouse brewery, the Clansouth consortium of 26 breweries, has tutored catering students on the WSET courses at Bournemouth College & is a member of…
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Cut the Killer Calories
Sugar addiction in obese people follows the same biochemical pathway as addiction to cocaine, heroin, alcohol and nicotine. This is the second visit to Salisbury by Prof Rod Bilton and Dr Larry Booth, of the School of Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University who are authors of Get Healthy, Beat Disease